12 Rainy Day Outfits Because Even if the Humidity Kills Your Hair, the Rest of You Will Look All Right

At press time (and place), it's a gloomy, pea-soupy mess out there, where pedestrians are being pelted with raindrops, their umbrellas suctioned inside out by the wind, and their joints hurting, because the barometric pressure or something. Like it or not, we all have to deal with the elements, so take them on, chic and dry, in the 12 outfit ideas ahead.

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Marginally better than humid, rainy days are cool, rainy days, on which you could wear a slicker with a fur collar and not worry about it wilting from your neck sweat. Swap out the quasi-velvet pumps for boots, and you're golden.

Can you tell I'm very into a vinyl trench? Here's one with the collar turned up against one of several tropical depression/full-blown hurricanes that keep striking the U.S., almost as if Mother Nature herself were showing that ignoring climate change would be disastrous. Shoe choice fine if you don't have particularly musty feet.

Another anorak, this one more dad-like, but worn with a minidress and those Balenciaga boots you really wanted in middle school. You might pause at a thought of wet legs, but that's at least better than wet jeans.

And now, we move on to most people's first instinct in the event of rain: the trench coat, which can turn the most tragic outfit elegant, if you do up the sash. No such worries here, though, with Doutzen Kroes' cream sweater and black trousers, lifted by a pale yellow bag.

None here either with the Rihannian interpretation, featuring another abbreviated skirt and knee-high, lace-up boots.

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Sometimes, when you see a person wearing wellies in a non-festival setting, you're like "Hmm, kind of aggressive." But then, after you've ruined your suede loafers, you remember that they are the most sensible rain shoe and that you were a fool not to take that stranger's lead.

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